POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mathew Brady, Fog Machine, Ken Burns

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

The history of film - rise of cinema and hollywood. First movie made in 1890s, but first movie pic was much earlier. Become famous for taking pics, created a lot of beef cause he invaded privacy. His photos were used in a documentary by ken burns. He used actors to enact the photos. Credited with the very first moving pic. Hired by a wealthy businessman to do something. Muybridge created pcs to imitate horses riding. Tienne-jules marey 5 march 1830, beaune, c te-d"or 15 may 1904,paris. They were at a high speed (60 images per second) and of excellent image quality. His research on how to capture and display moving images helped the emerging field of cinematography. Towards the end of his life he returned to studying the movement of quite abstract forms, like a falling ball. His last work was the observation and photography of smoke trails. In 1901 he could build a smoke machine with 58 smoke trails.